I don't know how to get any specific information on this, but whenever I try to use openoffice (2.2) in cassandra, the splash screen comes up, and it loads about 40% of the way...then the splash screen disappears and the program just doesn't load.

I've tried loading it via the terminal, but it says that there is no command for openoffice.

Also, in terminal, the /usr/bin/openoffice is highlighted with red font over black background...so I guess that means something's wrong with it?

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling with synaptic, uninstalling and reinstalling with apt-get, restarting, but it doesn't load.

So this means that the file "/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-scim.so" belongs to this package: scim-gtk2-immodule

And it seems like this package "scim-gtk2-immodule" got corrupted on your system somehow? Can you open up e.g. Synaptic and have this package completely purged and then reinstall it again? And then check if this changes anything?

Also, can you please have your computer's memory checked? I am a little bit puzzled about the memory errors you get early on, e.g. "free(): invalid pointer: 0x080d0a28 *** " ... Do you only have troubles with OpenOffice or also with other programs, e.g. Firefox?

unfortunately, I need support for chinese characters sometimes and that's what scim allows me to do :/ But when I reinstall scim and scim-gtk2-immodule, I get that error again, so that must be the cause.

I have experienced everything that subversive has described. Doing a complete uninstall of that package and related packages fixes the problem, but I too need to be able to type in Japanese. Does anyone have any insights into this bug? It is a big problem for internationalization! Thanks!